Winner · Contest #240
Lost and Found
On a lighthouse keeper’s final shift, a storm brings three solitary lives onto the same course. A story of rescue, late chances, and finding a way home.
Winner · Reedsy contest #232
The Lantern of Kaamos
In the Arctic’s long polar night, a marine biologist sets out across a landscape of ice and darkness, carrying the absence of the man she loves.
Read the complete story on Reedsy- Genre
- Adventure / Inspirational fiction
- Setting
- Svalbard and the Arctic polar night
- Themes
- Separation, wonder, endurance
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The story
Before you begin.
Jonna has come north to study a world that continues to live beneath the winter darkness. Above the ice, she is still reckoning with Trond’s departure and the promises they made. A journey with her fellow researchers takes her through a landscape both beautiful and dangerous, where the search for light becomes something more than scientific.
Continue to the published story“In the darkness, though, we can see what is never visible in the light.”
From The Lantern of Kaamos